Chapters Quotes

• Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

  

  Ellery Sedgwick
  • Legacy
  • Autobiography
  • Chapters

• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Play
  • Sick
  • Golf

• God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Attitude

• Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

  

  William James
  • Religion
  • Humans
  • Egotism

• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Memories

• The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Planets

• Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Book

• Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Happens
  • Divides

• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.

  

  Darrelle Revis
  • Always
  • Humble
  • Definitely

• The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Issues
  • Handle
  • Historian

• The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Week

• A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Together

• The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moved

• There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Slave
  • Instruments
  • Primitive

• There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Chapters

• Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Book
  • Life is

• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Cards

• I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There are a lot of new and exciting things on the horizon and the next chapter is going to be amazing.

  

  Wendy Starland
  • Together
  • Written
  • Exciting

• So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Die
  • End
  • See

• Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Chemistry
  • Doctrine
  • Endure

• Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Littles
  • Seems
  • Chapters

• If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

  

  David Stockman
  • Cutting
  • Politician
  • Republican

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